On May 4, 1970 members of the Ohio National Guard killed four students and wounded nine others at Kent State University. Some of the students were protesting the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Others in the line of fire were just seeing what was going on, or walking to their classes.

Iconic photos of the event appearing in newspapers and television galvanized the nation and inflamed the anti-war movement in the U.S. Millions of students protested and nearly 1,000 colleges and universities were shut down after the Kent State shooting.

Yesterday, a young woman who was part of the crowd in Tehran, either protesting or simply watching the events unfold, was shot in the chest, apparently by Iranian Basiji security forces on rooftops.

Her death was recorded on video, and the gruesome end of her life sped digitally and virally around the world on social media sites, such as YouTube and Facebook.

"Neda," as she was known, has in a matter of hours become an icon for the Iranian protest movement.

Her image has become memorialized in posters, including one in style similar to those that represented the Barack Obama campaign. Clearly, this isn't what she had planned to do with her life.

I'm betting that Mr. Farber wasn't alive in 1970, and only knows what his professors taught him about that era: I don't think Neda was threatening her murderer, (since he was up on a rooftop) like what the SDS peacecreeps at Kent State did to the National Guardsmen. But what do I know, I'm not a CBS reporter...

I was also alive in 1970, and I find the comparison insulting. Yes, some of the victims at Kent State were innocent, but some had harrassed the troops, and were threatening them. The Guardsmen overreacted, but they were not full-time Federal troops, either. Neda was killed in cold blood by a sniper on a rooftop, not by scared kids being stoned and threatened by hundreds of Weathermen and SDS anarchists. See the difference?

To those of you traumatized by what agony you think "Neda" was in as she lay wounded and died, I can assure you she felt none. I highly recommend the book "How We Die", by Dr. Sherwin Nuland, who methodically using studies shows how our bodies are equipped with mechanisms to make us unaware and even blissful when we have suffered a fatal trauma. You can see it at work clearly in the eyes of "Neda". First as she lay there, she looks confused, disoriented, but not grimacing or in pain. then as blood comes out her mouth and then nostrils, and in the photo shown above, she has an almost disturbing calm over fer face. Dr. Nuland describes in his book a 10-year old victim of a multiple-stabbing murderer, whose mother witnessed her death and was shocked to see a look of surprise and then peace on her face. The mother was convinced her daughter did not realize what happened and did not suffer as she died. We truly have a merciful God who loves us.

Tell us what election had been overturned in the U.S., that the Kent State students were protesting against.

Universities across the nation had offices occupied and buildings torched. Banks were torched. Kent state was just another in a series of protests orchestrated by communist funded and sympathizing agencies in the United States.

Who is funding the protests in Iran? U.S. sympathizers?

The National Guard at Kent State was trying to prevent more destruction.

What you had was a bunch of out of control imbecilic students and some under trained National Guard troops who didn’t know how to quell civil protests adequately.

Were there orders from the federal government to shoot the students? Where there orders to drop acid on them from helicopters? Was the media prevented from reporting on the situation?

I was alive and in Ohio at the time. My Dad had been a National Guardsman in the 60’s.

I remember my mother saying that the protesters had be threatening the National Guard troops, as you say.

The other thing about this is that NONE of the Protesters at Kent State did not have the option to walk away and go home untouched. If they did not protest there, they went on in their day to day lives.

The Iranians at this point go home to a good chance of being pulled out of their homes and killed in the streets.

No comparison at all.

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posted on 06/21/2009 12:11:50 PM PDT
by netmilsmom
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)

Several differences. The Guardsmen in Ohio were not tasked with "crushing" an anti govt movement. Two nights before, the Kent protest had moved into the streets of Kent and substansial damage had been done to private property. The mayor of Kent called on Cowboy Jim Rhodes gov of Ohio for help as the Kent PD was not sufficient to protect the town.

The guardsmen had been on a week of 24/7 duty at a prison riot before their arrival in eastern Ohio. What happened that day was tragic and absolutely inexcusable but it was not the thought of the mayor of Kent, Gov Rhodes, or Pres. Nixon to use deadly force to destroy a protest movement. If the Basji are not operating with instructions from the Supreme Leader then there may be a distant comparison between Tehrah and Kent, but you and I both know whom the Basji work for.

The agitators (the core of the rioters were not students at the University) at Kent State had burned down a building the night before and were chanting threats at the Guardsmen. When they charged, the firing broke out.

Most of the fire was directed over the heads of the rioters. Unfortunately, some students who were evacuating to escape the riots became casualties as they were loading their cars in a parking lot on a rise opposite the Guard's position.

The video record seen nationally and rebroadcast to this day was heavily edited. For some reason the networks, and CBS in particular, showed footage that made the Guard to appear to be the aggressor.

Local television (I lived in the Cleveland area at the time) showed a lot more footage of the rioters and their unwarranted violence. When the shooting occurred, our reaction was —”It's about time!”

Unfortunately, the Communist rioters and their duped followers only grew stronger after this event — in no small part due to the warped coverage by Walter Cronkite and other Communist sympathizers in the dominating media.

Man, that had to be terrible watching your daughter die like that! You will never, never, never forget that, no never! She was so young and beautiful and innocent. Man!!! She was reported to be 16-yrs old.

This young girl and those with her are wearing blue jeans and sports shoes. Just like a lot of Americans do. I doubt she was one who was intent on keeping the mullahs happy. I imagine that her “western style” dress played a part in her being chosen as a target by that perverted, sick, raghead murderer who murdered her.

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posted on 06/21/2009 12:31:05 PM PDT
by FlingWingFlyer
(Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out? Are you scared yet?)

What's going on is official gov't policy. I.e. the government over there is ordering violent suppression.

What happened at Kent State was NOT ordered by the White House. It was one isolated incident. Exacerbated, I might add, by communists students accusing the Gov't falsely. The students in Iran, however, are agitating for true freedom.

This is interesting since I kinda compare Iran’s election to our ACORN community agitator phoney election in so many places which, by the way, the swooning press failed to investigate at all; yet, we’re subjected to round-the-clock coverage of the same shenanigans going on in Iran.

I’ve been reading comments on other websites, and I’m amazed at the people who think this death may have been faked. Is that some kind of talking point that’s going around? I mean, the poor girl has copious amounts of blood coming out of her mouth and nose. How do you fake that, unless you’ve got a Hollywood studio at your disposal?

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posted on 06/21/2009 12:54:56 PM PDT
by popdonnelly
(The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)

“To those of you traumatized by what agony you think “Neda” was in as she lay wounded and died, I can assure you she felt none. I highly recommend the book “How We Die”, by Dr. Sherwin Nuland, who methodically using studies shows how our bodies are equipped with mechanisms to make us unaware and even blissful when we have suffered a fatal trauma.”

I wonder if Nuland can explain why a soldier cries out in pain and fear of death after they suffer a fatal trauma.

I agree.. there is a big difference. I was a KSU grad & out of there just a short time when this event exploded at Kent.

The SDSers were very rude when I was there.. bold, brass, obnoxious and that is when they werent high... & when I read the accounts & recall what they were like stoned, I could see them pushing the limits to inexperienced National Guardsmen.

Neda... her life & its message in death if very profound. She will make a difference, not as she had planned but as fate has provided

I was very much alive in 1970 and I find the articles comparison to be appropriate-you see a difference?

The attempt to overturn a brutal and oppressive dictatorship in Iran is comparable with enemy-led protests of America's efforts to free millions of South Vietnamese from communist oppression and brutality?

Here's a link to a must-read article on the event, from a non-left-wing biased source:

No can do, Whiskers - I'm as photoshop challenged as you. Apparently this graphic has been widely circulated (according to the article linked by 2ndDivisionVet above) somehow as a twisted tribute to 0banana - sickening.

Ive been reading comments on other websites, and Im amazed at the people who think this death may have been faked. Is that some kind of talking point thats going around? I mean, the poor girl has copious amounts of blood coming out of her mouth and nose. How do you fake that, unless youve got a Hollywood studio at your disposal?

They're here on FR as well......

Neda, young girl brutally killed in Iran (portrait of Neda)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276517/posts

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posted on 06/21/2009 7:44:41 PM PDT
by metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)

It is important to remember Neda as a living, breathing, extremely beautiful 26 year old woman.

Her full name was Her full name was Neda Agha-Soltan, which means "voice" or "calling" in Persian, and she has been referred to as the "voice of Iran" and "a symbol of pro-democracy protesters battering the Islamic regime."

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posted on 06/21/2009 10:40:48 PM PDT
by FormerACLUmember
(When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)

Here's a link to an excellent detailed analysis of what really happened at Kent State...

(sample)

"the purpose of all this agitation at Kent State was to recruit as much cannon fodder as possible, and then to provoke a "major confrontation." When it came, it would be neither accidental nor spontaneous. It would be exactly what the revolutionaries wanted.

On April 8, 1969, S.D.S. toughs marched through various campus buildings, disrupting classes as planned, chanting "Ho, Ho, Ho chi Minh," and striking campus police officers. One of these hoodlums pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of assault and battery, and drew a fine and jail sentence. The university scheduled a disciplinary hearing for two others on April sixteenth, at which time about one hundred revolutionaries smashed into the Music and Speech building where the hearing was being held, destroyed property, and again attacked police officers. Of the fifty-eight demonstrators arrested, ten were not even students at the school. At the rally preceding the march on the disciplinary hearing, non-student Jim Mellen told the audience as follows: "We're no longer asking you to come and help us make a revolution. We're telling you that the revolution has begun, and the only choice you have to make is which side you're on. And we're also telling you that if you get in the way of the revolution, it's going to run right over you." Mr. Mellen's remarks were included in a liberally distributed S.D.S. pamphlet, which began with a quotation from Mao Tse-tung and the following warning: "The war is on at Kent State University ...."

At a meeting in Williams Hall on April 28, 1969, revolutionary Communist Bernardine Dohrn said that people fighting "oppression" would have to carry weapons for "self defense." On May sixth, at another campus rally, Joyce Cecora called for armed rebellion: "They used guns at Cornell and they got what they wanted. It will come to that here!" And at still another rally on campus on May twenty-second, S.D.S. member Rick Skirvin said this: "We'll start blowing up buildings, we'll start buying guns, we'll do anything to bring this motherf***er down."

Michener quotes a student named Ken Tennant as follows: "With me it goes back to the music festival they held at Fred Fuller Park in September, 1969. Four Weathermen came down from Chicago, with insignia on their bib overalls. They were selling their organization newspaper, and I said, 'I'll buy a copy if you'll tell me what your outfit stands for.' They said, 'We're going to destroy this corrupt American society and build a better.' I asked how, and they explained, 'We've decided to close down schools all over the nation. We're going to start in Chicago. But we have our eye on Kent State, too. It could be ripe.' "

Bear in mind that we have room here to cite only a few examples of the inflammatory agitation and propaganda on the campus at Kent State for almost two years. The evidence establishesin the words of the revolutionariesthat the goal of S.D.S. was to provoke a violent confrontation in which somebody would be hurt, or even worse.

And the most incredible such example took place on April 10, 1970, when Jerry Rubin spoke on the campus at Kent State. Jerry Rubin is a Communist, of course. We can be absolutely sure of that because he has said so repeatedly. In fact he said he was a Communist when your reporter asked him about it at the Democrat National Convention in Miami in 1972. At that Convention Rubin also said that, when he and his Comrades take over, your reporter will be gassed. At Kent State, Communist Jerry Rubin said this: "The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. And I mean that quite literally, because until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not ready to change this country. Our parents are our first oppressors."

Your first reaction on reading a thing like this, of course, is that maybe I have taken it out of context. You refuse to believe that anybody would say this. But Rubin really told the students what you just read. It is important to remember that, at the time, Jerry Rubin was a convicted criminalhe had been convicted for leading the turmoil at the 1968 Democrat National Convention in Chicago, where terrorists attacked the policewhich raises the question of how such a man could be permitted to address students on a university campus in Ohio.**

Rubin also told the Kent State students to burn down the suburbs. "The American school system will be ended in two years," he explained. "We are going to bring it down. Quit being students. Become criminals. We have to disrupt every institution and break every law. We should have more laws so we can break them, too. Everybody should have their own law to break." As for the campus itself, Comrade Rubin told the students to ignore their professors, and to "burn all the books. It's quiet here now but things are going to start again."

The campus was now ready. Almost two years of intensive Communist propaganda had their effect. A sufficient number of students was willing to serve as cannon fodder for the revolutionary "cause." The Communists needed only an excuse to provoke their "major confrontation." Three weeks later they got their excuse.

"...it is important to quote at length from the state grand jury report on the affair: "Fifty-eight Guardsmen were injured by rocks and other objects hurled at them as they moved across the 'Commons' to Taylor Hall Hill and down to the practice football field, and were then forced to retreat .... it is clear that from the time the Guard reached the practice football field, they were on the defensive and had every reason to be concerned for their own welfare .... The circumstances present at that time indicate that 74 men surrounded by several hundred hostile rioters were forced to retreat back up the hill toward Taylor Hall under a constant barrage of rocks and other flying objects, accompanied by a constant flow of obscenities and chants such as 'Kill, Kill, Kill.' Photographic evidence has established, beyond any doubt, that as the National Guardsmen approached the top of the hill adjacent to Taylor Hall, a large segment of the crowd surged up the hill, led by smaller groups of agitators approaching to within short distances of the rear ranks of the Guardsmen.

"The testimony of the students and Guardsmen is clear that several members of the Guard were knocked to the ground or to their knees by the force of the objects thrown at them. ..."

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